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Community · February 2025
The block where we still play
How a Chicago neighborhood is reclaiming its summer one cookout at a time.
On Saturdays now, the corner is loud again — but loud the way it used to be: kids on bikes, somebody's auntie's speaker.
It took two years to get here. It took a lot of neighbors, a few permits, and the kind of stubbornness you can only build out of grief.